F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes - page 3

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. View quote
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Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. . . . View quote
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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself. View quote
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How strange to have failed as a social creature-even criminals do not fail that way-they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. View quote
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Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. View quote
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You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell. View quote
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice. View quote
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. View quote
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I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go. View quote
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. View quote
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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone? View quote
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. View quote
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all. View quote
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I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want you to know. I don't want any one to know. View quote
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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. View quote
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. View quote
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Forgotten is forgiven. View quote
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I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. View quote
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It takes two to make an accident. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. View quote
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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. View quote
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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. View quote
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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. View quote
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